Anonymous E-Mailer

[Major_A]

Hey Lamron, Last year OR SO, you post an on line anonymous e-mail place.
Do you recall the site? I remember liking the layout.

A second question:

What would be the repercussions of just sending all
my junk mail back @ the addresses that sent them 10 fold?

My thinking on this would be that if enough people started doing this,
they would have to start removing addresses that do this from their
lists just to sort through their junk.

It would amuse me to attempt this, but I'm asking in case there is
something I've not considered. The consequences I'm
referring to aren't legal ones. I'm referring to the fact that I
would purposefully be replying to spam email addresses.

[Lamron]

I cleverly hid the temporary E-Mail link on the front page of the website www.lamronsplayground.com so that no one would ever be able to find it.

To answer your other question, there's no one on the other end of that E-Mail address for you to annoy or inconvenience. Its all automated, and your replies just fall into a black hole on most of them. Some of them are worse than that. Some pro spammers are set up to send E-Mails out to every possible combination of characters that could make up someone's E-Mail address. That sounds like a lot of different combinations, but if you have hundreds of computers each sending out millions per day you'll hit them all after a couple of years. Most of them are gibberish invalid addresses, but if you hit "unsubscribe" or reply, or click any links in the E-Mail your address is now verified as a real address. Then you get put on another list.

That new list of verified, real E-Mail addresses is then sold to other spammers who can't do the high-volume spray-and-pray stuff and want to focus on real targets. That's when the spamming really starts!

When someone says they NEVER gives out their address and doesn't understand why they're buried in spam, its because they hit "unsubscribe" on all those E-Mails.

[RedRock]

And not just combos of letters, but combos of email providers--I use the same name but @gmail, aol, yahoo, etc., so I often get the same spam letter to my user name sent to EACH of the different email providers, so the spammers are "guessing" at names AND ALSO sending it to every possible email provider they can think of.